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I guess it's finally happened. To my regular readers, both vocal and silent, I have some disappointing news. I've decided that it's time to put Storm Island on permanent hiatus. It's something I've been considering for some time now. It may have been evident in recent chapters, but I just don't...

I'm not certain I'll touch on Dune a whole lot with the pending rewrite. His character was always meant to be this fearsome beast that Andrea knew she couldn't control in a safe manner, but always kept him as some sort of a backup for an emergency situation like seen in this chapter and in...

Storm Island Chapter 51: The Hound and the Mountain Lion Nearly an hour passed as Andrea and Kimberly made their way north towards the mountains of Yulong-la. Neither knew what to expect of them, so they romanticized an idea based on the name of the mountains: Jade Dragon Cliffs...

I think this part will always kind of struggle, as the plot is designed to be relatively straight forward: girl is hired as research assistant, girl is assigned projects, girl travels to projects and completes them, girl is assigned next project. Along the way she'll run into unrelated problems...

Yeah, fair enough. It's just a bummer, I guess. It's kind of disappointing to have your work judged 'inaccurately' due to time constraints, but it's all we can do really. As a judge myself, I was certainly guilty of it anyways, so is there room to complain? This has given me a bit of thought...

There's a couple of things I'd like to respond to, regarding your review: It's unfortunate my score was dropped so heavily because of her choice to leave the monastery, since most readers know why she'd do so as it's touched on in other chapters. Can't go back and change the scores, but it's...

Which parts? I have a solid idea for the next chapter, so that's not a concern for me at the moment, and I want this one to be better. Actually I was really only struggling with this specific instance, moving into the city. I wanted to do another chapter on the road but I seriously couldn't...

The quality of this one may be terrible. After being stuck for three months, I felt like I had to get something out. Hopefully it's not too mangled. Storm Island Chapter 50: The Important Things We Do Written by Kimberly Prescott, consultation by Caitlin It was a long and boring slog...

Eh, only kinda. I still don't know how to move Andrea/Kimberly's story forward (nor Kamin's, for that matter. I Gendry'd that poor bastard). A few ideas are still in the works, but none are particularly satisfying to me as a writer to work with. Maybe I need to start asking people for ideas...

Storm Island Rocket 4: Civic Center Subterfuge September 14th, Azure Ridge 12:32 PM It was a bright and sunny summer afternoon in the city of Azure Ridge. Another gripping heat wave was blasting the city and the surrounding countryside with no relief in sight. Most folks were smart...

kekekeke, I've held off on a responding to that because you pointed it out. :D I'm glad someone's picked up on it. I've been wanting to differentiate the Storm Island universe from our own for awhile now, and I figured making parallels to ours but changing a few things up would help to do that...

Storm Island Chapter 49: The Seeds Are Blossoming Journal entry, September 16th It's another fine day! The temperature is moderate, the skies are clear, the surrounding landscape is simply marvelous, and the local people are very welcoming! Andrea and I just enjoyed dinner at a family...

If you think this one is short, you're going to think the next chapter is an insult to the concept of length. I had a feeling I'd run into trouble here. While it's not supposed to actually be Mandarin, it basically is. The reason the grammar is so terribly broken is because I'm running it...

Storm Island Chapter 48: Fertile Farmlands "Let's see, how much further to Yulong-la..." Andrea muttered as she fiddled with her R-Kit. The map function was open, and while it wasn't providing detailed information due to her presence in a cave, it at least gave her a rough estimate of how...

Odd, I was never notified of your response. I know, a rare treat to be working with her again! I'll see if I can get her to stick around, but don't be surprised if the quality remains at this level during times she's on break from the project (no offense intended towards my esteemed colleague)...

Oh yeah, Team Rocket... I really need to get back to them. I've been kinda slacking with that storyline as things progressed later on. Thank you for reminding me. And him as well. He really needs some love and attention, too, and I've absolutely refused to give it to him. Another thing to work...

This does remind me, I reaaaaaaaaaally need to get back to work on Kamin. He's the character with the most potential, I think, but I've treated him very badly. Hopefully the motivation to get back to work on him returns at some point. :( Don't get your hopes up too much with him. He's got his...

Funny you mention the first chapters, I was contemplating rewriting them to fit in a few retcons as well as bring the quality up, but when I read them they didn't feel that out of place. The grammar has certainly changed a bit since then, but overall I feel like the quality is acceptable. I...

Storm Island Chapter 46: An Ancient Art The full moon hung high in the air, brightly illuminating the gardens of the Shenzin Monastery. Despite it being relatively late in the night, the gardens were still busy; several monks were practicing a particularly fluid style of martial arts, while...

There's always been a bit of a long term plan in store, the reason I had Andrea and Kimberly head north rather than east was to extend the time they'd be in Sakala. It felt too short to have such a disaster end in a 10 chapter mini-season. Perhaps my mantra of 'never go back and rewrite, keep...